Products and Services
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Chair: Ken Keiser, UAH, keiserk_@_uah.edu Vice-Chair: Tyler Stevens, GCMD
Monthly Teleconference
The Products and Services group has a regular monthly telecon on third Wednesday of every month at 2 EST.
The next telecon will be:
- Wednesday May 18, 2:00pm EDT
- Dial: 1-877-669-3239
- Access Code: 231 403 58
- (WebEx connection information provided as necessary)
- Agenda:
- Review P&S FY 2011 Testbed Proposal [1]
- Discuss ideas and plans for Summer ESIP meeting session
Testbed
The purpose of the Products and Services Testbed is to provide an environment where innovations in prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored nd evaluated. The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaboration across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit.
Committee E-mail List
Telecon Minutes:
- P&S Monthly Apr 20, 2011
- P&S Monthly Mar 16, 2011
- P&S Monthly Nov 19, 2010
- P&S Monthly Oct 15, 2010
- P&S Monthly Mar 19, 2010
- P&S Monthly Feb 19, 2010
- P&S Monthly Dec 4, 2009
- P&S Monthly Aug 21, 2009
- ServiceExchange Meeting Jul 9, 2009
- P&S Monthly Jun 19, 2009
- P&S Monthly May 15, 2009
- P&S Monthly Apr 17, 2009
- P&S Monthly Mar 20, 2009
- P&S Monthly Feb 24, 2009
- P&S Monthly August 29, 2006
- P&S Monthly May 23, 2006
- P&S Monthly April 25, 2006
- P&S Monthly March 28, 2006
Topics of Interest
- Improving metadata compliance within ESIP Federation
- Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance
- Representation of versioning
- Peer-reviewed datasets
- Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers
- Metadata harvesting and exchange and associated catalog services
- Client access to catalogs
- Service quality
- Data Quality
- Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records
- Federation Inventory
Metadata Clearinghouses for ESIP Products and Services
Data Standards
- ECHO Data Model
- GCMD DIF
- FGDC
- [ISO 19115]
Service Standards
Data Ontologies
Use Cases
- AQ Use Case 3: Publish, Harvest, and Query Metadata via Clearinghouse
Purpose (from ESIP Bylaws)
- a. To encourage the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;
- b. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and
- c. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.
About
- Committee Chair: Ken Keiser, UAH
- Committee Vice-Chair: Tyler Stevens, GCMD
References
- ECHO - Enabling Interoperability with NASA Earth science data snd services
- AQ Use Case 3: Publish, Harvest, and Query Metadata via Clearinghouse